Happy Birthday to my good buddy who entered into his 30th year on Saturday. I successfully plodded him with a Long Island Iced Tea for each decade and the resulting festivities were quite hilarious. Here’s to you, Matt!

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In addtion to the kickin’ series of seminars, this weekend also marked the bi-annual black belt examination. There were only two examinees this time, one of which was Raleigh Parrot of our dojo. He was testing for first degree black belt, or Shodan. He did a fine job and gave it his best attempt despite […]

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This weekend marked our trip to Saint Louis for a seminar with Sensei James Yabe. Actually, it was a series of four seminars. However I am counting it as one workout because it never really stopped for very long. What can I say about this man… in his sixties, Sensei Yabe can punch faster than […]

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